I see this one for a face cream all the time: a young woman is sitting in a bathtub with party paraphernalia strewn about, looking tired and dejected. A voice-over guy says “Skin Sin #17: too many after-parties”.
Not just too many parties, too many after-parties. Seems like if you’re partying till 4am every night, finding the right face cream is the least of your problems.
Can someone explain the commercial where the guy in the smoking jacket is saying sweet nothings to a cow while they lie in front of a romantic fireplace? I can’t even remember what’s being advertised. Barnyard sex? :dubious:
How expensive was that tuna, anyway? That movie was from 1983, and they cut the price by 50 cents a can. You can buy a can of tuna for just over 50 cents in 2020!
Has anybody mentioned that My Pillow idiot advertising his ‘you can take it anywhere’ smaller version? With real paid people saying things like ‘I can put it in my backpack, which is important to me’, and ad glurge like ‘You can use it in a chair or on your couch’. Well, no shit and sign me up for a dozen. :rolleyes:
Not only that, he is now plugging a mattress topper, a dog bed and a book he wrote about his journey from a drug addict to a CEO. I can’t imagine how much money he is spending on TV commercials. It’s nauseating.
There’s a recent one about what I think is an HIV prevention drug of some sort - it doesn’t go out of its way to say just what it does, but that’s not what annoys me; one of the warnings is, “Do not use this if you were assigned female at birth.” It makes it sound like whoever was delivering the baby can just say, “It’s a girl!,” and that’s what goes on the birth certificate.
I understand what they mean, and why they don’t say “if you are female,” but there has to be a better way of saying it. Maybe something like, “If you lack Y chromosomes”?
I guess that’s there way of tippy-toeing through the gender identity minefield. They can’t just say “women shouldn’t use this” because that leads to: how do you define “woman”?
We could spin off a whole sub-thread on prescription drug warnings. I like the one for prostate treatment that says it may cause birth defects in women. The intersection of people with prostate problems and people who may be pregnant is uh…really tiny.